July 29, 2014

Google may be working on a gigantic 5.9 inch smartphone to be released in November,2014 according to a new report from Android Police. The company is reportedly working with Motorola on the phablet, which will supposedly come with a fingerprint sensor and will launch with major US carriers. Google and Motorola are said to be calling it 'Shamu' internally.
That size is unusually large for a smartphone. It's one inch shy from being the same size as most mini tablets, such as the Google Nexus 7.
Samsung's Galaxy Mega, which comes in both 5.8-inch and 6.3-inch screen sizes, and LG G Pro 2 are the only other phablets that compare in size. Most phablets fall into the 5.3-5.7-inch range.

Android continues to be beset by problems whenever it just seems that its all ready to blow competition away ..

Apparently Millions of people using Android devices could be left open to attack from malicious apps that appear to come from legitimate developers, due to a flaw in Google's mobile software.
The flaw has been named "Fake ID" by security company Bluebox Labs, which discovered it.

The worse part as globally Android's marketshare is bigger than its nearest competitors and this affects almost all Android phones.

Bluebox says the vulnerability dates back to the January 2010 release of Android 2.1 and affects all devices that are not patched for "Google bug 13678484," which was disclosed to Google and released for patching in April..The root of this vulnerability lies in what's called a "certificate chain," in which encrypted certificates that verify the identities of Android apps can trust each other to communicate and share data.

However, Google says it has already issued a patch to protect Android users from attacks exploiting the flaw.

July 6, 2014

Thoseof you who are using Android Mobile OS phones less that 3 years old, that is any Android phone purchase before 2011, Beware , it could be broadcasting the names of every Wi-Fi network you've connected to and in the process leak sensitive data and compromise privacy

According to findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which are reproduced across many tech websites reveals that Android device with Android 3.1 Honeycomb or later installed is in Preferred Network Offload mode, meaning it broadcasts the recent Wi-Fi networks it was connected to, allowing anyone within Wi-Fi range to figure out exactly where the user is based and where they have previously been.

Howeeve these no need to panic There always a solution, as people who use technology products are more often than not smarter than who makes them

Just go to "Advanced Wi-Fi" settings and disable the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" option to stop PNO from checking for networks in sleep mode.

Acording to TheVerge Devices running iOS 6, 7, or 8 are not affected by the bug, although EFF reported some data leakage in iOS 5 devices.

Google had acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005 with key employees of Android Inc., including Rubin, Miner, and White. Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time, but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move

As we reach a decade of Android's existence the Smartphone Market continues to be controlled by Android and Apple.The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, released on October 22, 2008 . It was not until 2011 that Android had established itself Google's success in its Mobile OS has come" in around 3 years.

The Mobile OS market continues to be a 2 ways street, with just 2 brands catering to a a one million first time smartphone users in a month

In terms of Consumer choices the Mobile OS market has seen RIMbeaten to dust and Windows failing to rise from the dust

How are these 2 giants battling it up. How do they compare across markets across devices and in terms of holding on to their marketshare .In terms of Click through rates and revenue . How do they stack up across Mobile Apps ? How do the duo compete on CTR and Revenue? . Why does an Android Phones comes cheaper than iPhone . How do they compare across the Tablet Devices . While the Giants fight it out, the infographic shows you how

This chart from Techbuffolo shows the Fragmentation in Android Devices

A recent post on Android L being integrated on Moto X and Moto G Android 5.0 L update was confirmed by many technology sites
It said "Although Google did not spill any important details about which handset will be carrying the Android L during its I/O keynote on Wednesday, Neither did it the name new mobile operating system is, or its version number – and which handsets would be carrying the Android L"

Motorola Germany confirmed on Facebook that the Moto X and Moto G will both receive the Android L update later this year, referring to the update as Android 5.0. “Android 5.0 arrives in autumn on Moto X and Moto G,” Motorola Germany wrote

As it turns out, Motorola has yet to formally speak up about its plans for Android L, and the Facebook account for “Motorola Germany” has been outed as a fake.

Here’s a statement from the real Motorola:

"Unfortunately, we have found that a Facebook profile under the name Motorola Germany with the following URL facebook.com/MotoDACH/ was created. We would like to point out that this is not an official Motorola site and expressly distance ourselves from said content. All relevant information about Motorola can be found only here on this pag

June 27, 2014

Google's most ambitious Android release codenamed 'L' , is now available in the Android L Developer Preview. Released on June 25, 2014, in
beta , for selected Google Nexus devices ,Android L its expected to be a part of selected Google Nexus device and is expected for manufacturing rollout in late-2014

This
has been year.s not clear what the
name of the new mobile operating system is, or its version number – somesay it’s Android 5.0 Lollipop. It’s also not
known what devices will be able to run it. Some of the salient features are

1.The Android L Screen
elements will be able to simulate depth, with automatic shadows and scaling,
but will also inherit elements of classic magazine typography and layout.

2.The Android L includes a
redesigned user interface built around a responsive design language referred to
as "material design. Among the new features the notification, can
now be accessed from the locked screen.

3.Among other changes include
a radical new design, 5000 new APIs,
going beyond the mobile form factor. Android L will be contextually aware
of its surrounding, plus voice is going to me a major input source.

Internal changes were also made to the platform, with the Android
Runtime officially replacing Dalvik for improved application performance, and
changes intended to improve and optimize battery usage

June 13, 2014

Google is about to enter the " Heath and wellness " industry by its new launch of Google Fit, which aims to aggregate data from user generated health and fitness requirements including personal gadgets ,or mobile apps .

Google wants to be the place where health data is collected.-related apps, which users can access across their devices . This is Google firsts attempt to enter the fitness and wellness vertical after wearable devices.

According to Forbes report Google is expected to announce a new service called Google Fit"
Google Fit will be a service that collects all the data from all of your health-tracking gadgets."and help you store and access it across the cloud

This comes after the launch of Apple HealthKit framework, launched last week which plans to aggregate data from wearable devices and apps. Last month Samsung also unveiled Sami, a biometric data platform that collects health information from devices and apps too With.Google Fit , google would pose a direct competition to the 2 technology giants and the fight for the multibillion dollar health and Fitness market

June 11, 2014

According to the latest Mobile Media Advertising Mix, out of 73% smartphone users where M Media reached , 56% mobile ad impressions were across Android users, and 37% were from iOS consumers. Impressions across non phone connected device (( tablets, consoles,) was 23% ( 3% rise increase as compared to last yearAd impressions across iOS OS increased by 3% ( 34% to 37% ) during last FY, while Android users saw 4% increase in impressions served across their mobile device ( from 52% to 56%)

May 25, 2014

In the run-up to iPhone 5S/5C launch event, the “cheap” iPhone 5C and its price was a #1 topic of speculation. A close #2 was Apple’s deal with China Mobile.
Why were pundits so obsessed about getting iPhone on one Chinese carrier?

In its latest article, Unwired.com " speaks about the " often over estimated Mobile Market in China .Yes, China Mobile is humongous - it has 740 million subscribers. But most of those subscribers use cheap 2G feature phones and wouldn’t care much about an iPhone. China Mobile’s 3G subscriber base is way smaller – around 180 million. Still a huge number, but majority of those subscribers use cheap $100-200 Androids, and aren’t available to Apple either.

And if you look at the combined base of around 150 million 3G subscribers at current Apple partners – China Telecom and China Unicom, you may wonder what the China Mobile fuss was all about.

January 30, 2014

By selling Motorola, Google is shifting to what it does best and is an acknowledgment that Google is better off focusing on its core competencies — making software and selling ads — particularly as the profit margins for phones are shrinking all across the world

Its the end of the Google's Tryst with Motorola Mobility".Motorola has just been jettisoned and dumped by Google, which the Search Giant acquired 2 years ago for a record $12.6 billion .

Motorola's new parent will be Lenevo ,who paid $ 2.9 billion to Google for buying off the earstwhile Mobile Giant . So does that mean that Google failed to integrate Motorala's patents and its hardware Legacy ecosystem? Does this also signal the end of " Google's Mobile Web Initiatives to take over the " Mobile OS/.HS specially the hardware ( operating system and Hardware)

The sell off allows " Google " clear the financial mess headache that has plagued the internet company since buying Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in 2012.However Google is also keeping most of the patents that came with the Motorola purchase.

In the "Meantime "Motorola has lost nearly $2 billion since Google took over, while trimming its workforce from 20,000 to 3,800.
Google had previously sold company's set-top operations last year to Arris Group Inc. for $2.35 billion. Google is also keeping most of the patents that came with the Motorola purchase.

November 3, 2013

Rank 1:

Apple iPad 4th Generation

The 4th-generation iPad leads the pack in
almost every respect. Packing a 42.5-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery,
Apple's latest iPad lasted an unbelievable 12 hours and 22 minutes on the
LAPTOP Battery Test, well over the 7 hour and 7 minute average

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Rank 2 :Apple iPad Mini

The
LTE model has a life of 8 hours and 16 minutes (It can last during the flight
from New York to London ) The Apple iPad Mini boasts among the most impressive Displays

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Rank 3 :Samsung GalaxyTab 2 10.1

Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
almost lasts whopping 9 hours and 59
minutes and probably among the best “
device “ with the highest Battery Life

September 23, 2013

Its been a a tale of two Tech Giants competeing for Consumer Mindspace as BlackBerry has agreed to go private in a
$US4.7 billion dealwith Fairfax Holdings Limited. The deal won’t go
through for a few more weeks, and BlackBerry can still accept offers
from someone else.

The
news comes on the same day Apple, the company credited for the
disruption of the mobile device industry that helped cause
BlackBerry’s downfall, posted record opening weekend sales for its
new iPhones. Apple sold 9 million of them.

These
9 million iPhones which have been sold in the lat week are
a mix of both models, the top-tier iPhone 5S and the cheaper plastic
iPhone 5C.

But
even if most iPhones sold were the cheaper model, Apple brought in at
least $US5 billion in revenue from its iPhone business last weekend.
And that’s being conservative. So, in short, Apple generated more
revenue from iPhone sales last weekend than all of BlackBerry will
likely sell for.!

July 13, 2013

Among The worlds biggest and the brightest, Technnology Companies microsoft has beein the news more that any one else. While the world moves into cloud and open source, Microsofy has been favorite punching bag for its " Closed door ecosystem"

These org chart of the tech titans showed how " Microsoft Org chart" is responsible for the failure of the company an has failed to launch innovative products and get the first mover advantage.The chart shows Google, Apple, Oracle has been successful in the web2.era as their org chart structure is robust and innovative

A couple of years ago, the above satirical set of diagrams depicting the organization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and other technology companies made the rounds on the Internet. The chart for Microsoft showed several isolated pyramids representing its divisions, each with a cartoon pistol aimed at the other.

However the structure at Microstf is all set to undergo a transformation and their Internal Divisions will no longer gun down each other .

Microsoft would dissolve its eight product divisions in favor of four new ones arranged around broader functional themes, a change meant to encourage a tighter marriage among technologies as competitors like Apple and Google outflank it in the mobile and Internet markets

“To execute, we’ve got to move from multiple Microsofts to one Microsoft,” Steven A. Ballmer, the longtime chief executive, said in an interview.

June 11, 2013

Apple’s Worldwide Developers
Conference kicked off today, and as usual, the keynote began with a bunch of
Apple stats.

Before
showing a video of the company’s latest retail store opening in Berlin, CEO Tim
Cook revealed that a million people went to Apple’s retail stores per day last
year. They now have 47 stores around the world in 14 countries. This particular
store was opened in a hundred-year-old building.

On the
digital side of things, Cook announced that people have downloaded 50 billion
apps from the App Store. There are currently 900,000 apps in the store, and 93%
of them, he said, are downloaded every month.

Here
are Some interesting App Store Numbers and Data that reveals " How Apple
managed to change the Mobile Content Ecosystem

There are now 900,000 apps in the app store, with 375,000 of those
optimized for the iPad.

Out of those 900,000 apps, 93% are downloaded every month. That's
up from 700,000 apps announced at the September 2012 iPhone 5 event

Apple Crossed the 50 billion apps downloaded from the store, in May
2013

So far Apple has paid out $10 billion to developers, with $5
billion paid out in the last year alone.

Apple claims that this makes up 74 percent of total app
download revenue across all mobile